vmworld 2013: extend vmware’s cloud automation solution with vcenter orchestrator plug-ins and...

Extend VMware’s Cloud Automation Solution with

vCenter Orchestrator Plug-ins and vFabric

Application Director Blueprints

Terry Lyons, VMware

Meena Nagarajan, VMware

TEX5286

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Disclaimer

This presentation may contain product features that are currently

under development.

This overview of new technology represents no commitment from

VMware to deliver these features in any generally available

product.

Features are subject to change, and must not be included in

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Technical feasibility and market demand will affect final delivery.

Pricing and packaging for any new technologies or features

discussed or presented have not been determined.

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Forward Looking Statement

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historical fact are forward-looking statements based upon current

expectations. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in

the forward-looking statements. Information regarding risk factors that

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reports that VMware may file with the SEC from time to time on periodic

reports on Form 10-Q and Form 10-K and current reports on Form 8-K.

VMware assumed no obligation to update any such forward-looking

statements after the date of this presentation.

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Datacenter Automation is Here to Stay

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Agenda

VMware Cloud Automation

• vCenter Automation Center

• vFabric Application Director

Introduction to vCenter Orchestrator and Plug-ins

Introduction to vFabric Application Director and Blueprints

Certification for vCO Plug-ins and Application

Director Blueprints

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VMware vCloud Suite : Delivering on the Software-Defined Datacenter

Automation Management

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VMware Cloud Automation Solution

vCloud Service Providers

Other Service Providers

Other Hypervisors

Hardware

VMware Cloud Infrastructure

Virtual Data Center

Virtual Infrastructure

Software Defined Networking and Security

Software Defined Storage and Availability

Cloud Automation

Self - Service

IaaS PaaS DaaS XaaS

Policy-Based Governance with Automated Delivery

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Other Hypervisors

Hardware

vSphere Cloud Infrastructure

Virtual Data Center




Cloud Automation

vCloud

Automation Center

(IaaS, & DaaS)

vFabric

Application Director

(PaaS)


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Provision infrastructure

and application services on

VMware private and public

clouds, other hypervisors,

physical and Amazon EC2

based on business and IT

policies

Hybrid, Heterogeneous

IAAS Provisioning

Multi-

platform

Multi-

provider

Model and automate

deployment of applications

to any registered cloud

using blueprints and

standardized application

components, databases

and settings

Application & DB

Provisioning

Deliver a virtual desktop

cloud by automating and

orchestrating the rapid

creation of desktops that

meet exact specifications

of both the business and

individual users

Desktop

Provisioning

What is VMware Cloud Automation?

Hybrid

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What’s Needed for Effective Cloud Automation Management?

Personalized self-service delivery of standardized

middleware, application, database and desktop services

PaaS, DBaaS,

DaaS

Management of Day 2 operations of infrastructure,

application and database services (e.g., reclamation of

inactive VM’s, application updates, database backup,

snapshot, cloning, replication, tear down etc.)

Lifecycle

Management

Ability to extend self-service catalog to facilitate XaaS

(e.g., storage, networking, desktops, security, compliance);

ability to model external services in application blueprints

Extensibility

Ability to provision on VMware private and public clouds,

other hypervisors, physical and Amazon EC2 Any Infrastructure

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Extending Cloud Automation – Partner Opportunity

VMware Cloud Automation

vCloud Automation Center (IaaS, & DaaS Automation )

Infrastructure

Integration

• CMDB

• DNS

• IPAM

• Load

Balancers

• Service Desk

• Monitoring

Systems

• Databases

• Web Services

• Etc.

Fabric

Management

Automation

vC

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Orc

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vFabric Application Director (PaaS Automation )

Application

Blueprints vCO Plug-in

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Description

Using vCO and vCAC to Create XaaS Offerings

Benefits

Reduce the time to deliver a workload

Leverage the Cloud Automation solution

to deliver any kind of service

Extensible design and APIs to facilitate

XaaS: Database, Storage, Networking,

Desktops, Security, Compliance, etc.

Connect to external services (like

databases, load balancers, etc.) when

modeling application blueprints

Self-Service

IaaS PaaS DaaS XaaS

Cloud Service Provisioning

Heterogeneous Infrastructure

Policy-Based Governance with Automated Delivery

2013

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Storage as a Service (example)

Service Definition

Service Name: Storage as a Service

• Who Uses: Developer, QE, Project Manager, Storage Admin

Description: On demand flexible storage

Hours of Service Fulfillment:

9am – 4pm Monday – Friday

Service Level Objective:

Storage provisioning begins after approval

Service Blueprint:

Characteristics of storage available for provisioning

Workflow required to provision the service:

workflow defined in vCO

Result of the Service:

Provisioned and Manageable Storage

Request Attributes

Day 2 Operations

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Storage Service Additional Details

Request Attributes

Request Description:

Project Code or Cost Center:

Reason for Request:

Service Tier: Gold, Silver, Bronze

Type of Storage: LUN or Volume

Lease Period: # of Days

Shared? (clustering): Y or N:

Day 2 Operations

Extend (grow)

Snapshot

Restore

Expire

Upgrade / Change Tier

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Candidate Services for XaaS Offerings

Service Description What? Object / Enhancement Vendor

Storage Storage Object LUNs and File systems ?

Database Database Object Database Instances ?

Availability Failover (SRM) Enhancement Redundant copy of machine ?

Security Firewall / Antivirus /

IDS Enhancement

Protection of machine (FW, install AV,

monitor) ?

Compliance Configuration Mgmt Enhancement Monitoring and applying

machine/app/OS settings ?

Desktop Virtual Desktops Object Virtual Desktop instance ?

Application Applications Enhancement Application installed on machine ?

Scalability Scale-out/in on

demand Enhancement

Add / Remove machines based on load

criteria ?

Email Email accounts Object Email accounts ?

Access

(entitlement) SaaS entitlement Object

Use of hosted app Software based on

consumption (i.e. users, # of records) ?

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Agenda





Introduction vFabric Application Director and Blueprints

Certification for vCO Plug-ins and Application Director

Blueprints

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IT conversations before automation….

Impact of Automation – Simplification of Manual Processes

IT automation is the linking of disparate systems and software in such a

way that they become self-acting or self-regulating.

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vCAC and vCO – Complementary Automation Solutions


Virtual Datacenter

IT In

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Op

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IT C

on

su

mers

Infrastructure

Integration

CMDB

DNS

IPAM

Load

Balancers

Service Desk

Monitoring

Systems

Databases

Web

Services

Etc.

vC

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ter

Orc

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vCAC and vCO are complementary…..



Other Hypervisors

Hardware

vSphere Cloud Infrastructure

Virtual Data Center




Cloud Automation

vCloud

Automation Center

(IaaS, & DaaS)

vFabric

Application Director

(PaaS)

vC

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ter

Orc

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Pro

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Agenda







Blueprints

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Cloud is Driving Innovation

Cloud is accelerating innovation—The number of Applications

moving to IaaS is more than doubling each year.

“Respondents are satisfied that

virtualization is reducing data

center floor space, energy cost

and thermal output. However,

expectations for an overall

reduction in hardware capital

expenditure and increased

application deployment speed

and efficiency have not been

fully met”

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Enabling Cloud App Provisioning Efficiency

Setup Infrastructure

•Configure N/w and Storage

•Deploy and Configure OS

Setup Application Middleware

•Deploy and configure application middleware

•Connect it to Database

Deploy Application

•Development

•Test

•Production

•Different Clouds

4 days to

8 weeks

Traditional app provisioning

Minutes

What app provisioning should be …

An application architect uses a self-serve application provisioning portal

to fully provision & update applications across any registered cloud

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Requirements for Cloud Application Provisioning

Reduce application deployment time

Flexibility to provision any application into any destination

Standardization for IT control and compliance

Minutes Days/

Months

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Accelerate PaaS and Application Deployment

Streamline the deployment and update process

Leverage pre-built components

Re-use blueprints for various environments

Components

Application Blueprint

Components Components Components

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Provision Integrated Multi – Tier Applications

VMware provides

Enabling technology to provision integrated multi-tier applications into hybrid clouds

Marketplace platform for ISV’s, SI’s and SP’s

SP’s plan to provide enterprise services

Any

Application

Any

Cloud

ISV’s provide their technology as components

SI’s provide reference architectures

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Flexibility to Deploy into Any Destination

Development / test / production environments

Private / public / hybrid cloud

Virtualized vSphere environments

Gold / silver / bronze

Virtual Cloud

vSphere

vCloud

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Agenda







Blueprints

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VMware Ready Certification Program Goals

Certification Offerings:

• VMware Ready for vCenter Orchestrator Plug-In Program

• VMware Ready for Application Director Blueprints Program

Description

• The purpose of VMware’s certification programs is to enable partners to create

rich content and extend VMware solutions with partner capabilities

High-level Goals

• Create best practices to guide partners in development of content

• Provide partners with VMware consulting services

• Certify content developed by partners

• Align customer support between VMware GSS and Partner Support

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Certification Benefits to Partners

Partner Solution listed in VMware Compatibility Guide (vCG)

Differentiate Partner Solution in VMware Solution Exchange (VSX)

“VMware Ready” logo

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Certification Program Offerings for Partners

• Best Practices Guide

• Example: vCO Plug-in SDK Documents and Video

• Program Guide

• Certification Guide Documentation

• vCO Plug-in SDK available for download on VMware.com

• VMware products available through NFR or extended evals

• Partner Support

• Partners can contact [email protected]

Development Consulting

• Content to be certified:

• Application Director: Services, Blueprints, Script Tasks and VMTemplates

• vCenter Orchestrator: vCO plug-ins

• Presence in VMware Compatibility Guide (vCG)

Certification

• End customers work with VMware and Partners thru TSAnet to resolve any API issues

• Front facing GSS GSS (Support)

Technical Previews

• Cloud Management Marketplace in Solution Exchange: one location to have access to all the content developed by partners

• “VMware Ready” logo in VSX and Market Success Press-Release Solution Exchange

• vCloud Suite (includes vSphere, vCenter and vCenter Orchestrator)

• vCloud Automation Center

• Application Director

• VMware Technology Partner Program (TAP) roadmap sessions

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VMware Ready Application Director Blueprints Program – Content Certified

• Blueprints (Solutions)

• Services

• Script Tasks

• VMTemplates

(w/Pre-Installed Services)

• VMTemplates

(w/o Pre-Installed Services)

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VMware Ready Application Director Blueprint Program – Partner Benefits

Leverage over 250,000+ customers

• Cloud enabled applications with standardized application structure & policies for simple and complex apps.

• Agile, standardized repeated deployments.

• Portable across hybrid clouds (supports vCloud, AWS deployments).

Rich catalog of supported OS, Middleware

• Quickly gets IT to standardize on “cloud-ready” OS and application infrastructure components.

• Accelerates standardized application deployments into cloud.

Rich certification program

• Ability to include “VMware Ready” logo in collaterals.

• List on the VMware Compatibility List.

• VMware development support.

• Solution listed on VSX marketplace.

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VMware Applications

vCloud Director

vCenter Chargeback

vCenter Configuration Manager

vCenter Update Manager

vCenter Server

vCenter Orchestrator Multi-Node

vSphere Auto Deploy

vCloud Automation Center

AMQP / RabbitMQ

Email (POP3 and SMTP)

HTTP - REST

JDBC

SOAP

SNMP v1, v2c and v3

SQL

SSH

Telnet

XML

Standard Protocols

Amazon EC2

BMC BladeLogic

Citrix XenDesktop & XenServer

Dell Lifecycle Controller

HP iLO

HP Server Automation

Microsoft Active Directory

Microsoft Hyper-V & SCVMM

Microsoft Windows PowerShell

NetApp Flexclone

Radware vDirect

Up.time Software

Partner Applications

Thousands of Out of the Box vCO Workflows & Integrations

Egenera PAN Manager (CERTIFIED)

InfoBlox IPAM (CERTIFIED)

Seamless vCO Plug-in for BMC ITSM (CERTIFIED)

Seamless vCO Plug-in for BMC CMDB (CERTIFIED)

EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager (CERTIFIED)

Cisco UCS Manager

F5 Networks BigIP

ServiceNow

VMware vShield Manager

Bluecat Networks IPAM

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VMware Ready vCO Plug-in Program – Partner Benefits

Leverage over 250,000+ customers

• vCO bundled with vCenter at no extra charge

• vCO available as appliance

• vCO integrated with vSphere Web Client

Central integration point

• Lower your R&D costs. Integrate to vCenter, vCD and vCAC through one solution

• Launch vCO workflows from multiple VMware products (vCenter, vCAC, vCOPS, etc.)

• Create XaaS offerings using vCO plug-in

Rich certification program

• Ability to include “VMware® Ready™” logo in collaterals

• List on the VMware Compatibility List

• VMware development support

• Solution listed on VSX marketplace

Your

workflows

here

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Marketplace for Cloud Application Services, Blueprints and vCO plug-ins

Public

ISV / IHV

System Integrators

Content Providers

Publish

Deploy

Scale Private

Hybrid

Networking & Security

• ADC

• Firewall

• SSL Accelerator

• WAN Accelerator…

Development

• vFabric

• LAMP, Zend

• Hadoop, CB

• WLS, WAS...

Productivity

• WordPress

• Drupal

• JIRA…

• Accelerated Packaged Apps, Reference Architectures for

multi-tier complex apps SI intensive

120+ vCloud-powered

service providers

Ready-to-use Cloud Solutions by VMware Partners

https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/category_groups/application-management?

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What are the Next Steps …

1. VMware Solutions required to get started:

• vSphere + vCenter + vCenter Orchestrator

• vCloud Automation Center

• vFabric Application Director (hosted version for development available upon request)

2. Start with building:

• vCO plug-in: download the vCO Plug-in SDK

• Content for Application Director: blueprints, services, tasks and VM Templates

3. Expose your vCO plug-in to vCAC (optional)

• Requirement: partner solution must be a “consumable resource” for use by

business/consumers of IT services.

4. Publish your solution on VMware Solution Exchange

• An easy way for customers to find your solution and for you to get leads

5. Get your solution certified as VMware Ready

• Contact [email protected] or your VMware Alliance Manager for details

mailto:[email protected]

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Summary

Cloud Automation - automated, policy-based provisioning of

infrastructure, application and desktop services.

• vCAC – self-service solution that exposes IT consumers to infrastructure

services as consumable resources.

• vCO - enable automation of cross-system operational tasks by IT Operations

and Infrastructure.

• vCO plug-ins are used to integrate with VMware and 3rd party infrastructure solutions

• Application Director – provisioning & release automation of an application

stack

• Blueprints are used to standardized application deployments (model once, deploy

anywhere) and enable application portability

• Supports hybrid cloud provisioning (vCloud, AWS, vSphere)

Certification

• Certify content developed by partners

• Create best practices to guide partners in development of content

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THANK YOU Ravindra Neelakant [email protected]

Confidential

Meenakshi Nagarajan

[email protected]

Terry Lyons

[email protected]

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TAP Resources

TAP

• TAP support: 1-866-524-4966

• Email: [email protected]

• Partner Central: http://www.vmware.com/partners/partners.html

TAP Team

• Kristen Edwards – Sr. Alliance Program Manager

• Sheela Toor – Marketing Communication Manager

• Michael Thompson – Alliance Web Application Manager

• Audra Bowcutt –

• Ted Dunn –

• Dalene Bishop – Partner Enablement Manager, TAP

VMware Solution Exchange

• Marketplace support –

[email protected]

• Partner Marketplace @ VMware

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THANK YOU

Extend VMware’s Cloud Automation Solution with

vCenter Orchestrator plug-ins and vFabric

Application Director Blueprints

Terry Lyons, VMware

Meena Nagarajan, VMware

TEX5286