Managing vSphere Across Multiple Regions and Multiple vCenters

Managing vSphere Across Multiple Regions and Multiple

vCenters

Systems Engineer, Platform9

Prior to joining Platform9, Cody was the Lead Cloud Architect at General Electric, where he built an enormous private cloud based on VMware vCloud Director spanning North America, Europe, and Asia. With more than 10 years of IT infrastructure experience across multiple industries, he brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise, particularly as an enterprise IT practitioner and strategist in one of the world’s largest technology shops.

Cody Hill

Agenda

• What makes a true VMware private cloud?

• Single pane of glass across multiple vCenters

• Live demo - multi-vCenter / multi-hypervisor cloud

• Automation and self-service with open APIs

• Multi-tenancy across dispersed resources

• Live demo - multi-tenancy and quotas

• Q&A

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What makes a true VMware private cloud?

• Self-service provisioning

• Orchestration - using application blueprints

• Metering - For Charge Back or Show Back

• Fully Monitored, Self-Healing, & Upgraded Frequently

• Multiple Regions, that are centrally managed

• DevOps - Using AWS-like REST APIs and CLI

• Multiple Tenants with Quotas

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What does AWS have that you don’t?

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What does AWS have that you don’t?

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Platform9 Managed OpenStack

Private Cloud-as-a-Service

• Enterprise’s servers host their data

• Platform9 hosts the cloud controllers as a managed service, with an operational SLA

• No need to install, monitor, troubleshoot or upgrade the cloud platform

Full lifecycle management

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Multiple regions / hypervisors

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Users IT

• Gateway

•vCenter

Self-service Policy, Administration

• Gateway

•vCenter

West - Dev (KVM) West - Prod (vSphere) East - Prod (vSphere)

Live demo - multi-vCenter cloud

DEMO

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Automation and self-service with open APIs

• Enhance developer productivity with self-service provisioning through Rest APIs or Command line tools

• Leverage Open APIs to enable Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and Continuous Delivery!

• Works great with all major automation frameworks!

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Hudson

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Multi-Tenancy with quotas

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Application Stacks

CMDB Stack

Client Payment Stack

Sales Management Stack

Statement Stack

Developers

Developers

Developers

Developers

Regional Data Centers Tenant Quotas

Sales Organization

(Tenants)

•Data Center 1 Quota

•Data Center 2 Quota

Data C

enter 1

Data C

enter 2

50,000 MHz of CPU80,000 MB of Memory

125,000 MHz of CPU150,000 MB of Memory

320,000 MHz of CPU1,250,000 MB of Memory

Data Center 1

Data Center 2400,000 MHz of CPU2,250,000 MB of Memory

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Live demo - multi-tenancy and quotas

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DEMO

• Learn:

• Read about Platform9 at http://platform9.com

• Follow us on Twitter @Platform9Sys

• Evaluate: • Sign up for a 15-day trial http://platform9.com/free-trial.html

• Be up and running in minutes

• Contact:

• Call us at 650-898-7369

• E-mail us at [email protected]

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