VMware Private Clouds: Charting a path to success

VMware Private Clouds: Charting a path to success

Madhura Maskasky, Co-founder, VP of Product

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Speaker Bio

Madhura Maskasky

• Co-founder, VP of Product at Platform9

• Previously: Staff Engineer at VMware (7 years), Oracle, Microsoft,


• Business Drivers For A Private Cloud

• Building VMware Private Clouds

• Benefits Of A Managed Private Cloud

• vSphere With Platform9

• What About vRealize Automation (vRA)?

• Customer Use Case

Agenda


Business Drivers For A Private Cloud


• How does today’s Enterprise CIO:

• Enable developer productivity with internal infrastructure?

• Increase private infrastructure utilization?

• Leverage existing and new virtualization technologies?

Why Private Clouds


Benefits Of Private Clouds

Taking the business benefits of private clouds to new heights - Avanade white Paper @2013


Building VMware Private Clouds


• Self-service to enable developer productivity

• Enable greater automation: Infrastructure-as-code

• Simple to deploy and operate cloud

• Single Pane across vSphere, KVM, Docker, etc.

What VMware Customer Want

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• Complexity is huge barrier to private cloud success

• Massive pain to install

• Nightmare to operate

•No support for existing assets

•No support for diverse virtualization platforms

But Private Clouds Are Difficult


• Massive installed base for VMware vSphere

• ~6M ESXi servers, ~100M Virtual Machines

• >50% of Virtualization market

• Yet, limited private cloud adoption

vSphere To Private Cloud


Benefits Of A Managed Private Cloud


Private Cloud-as-a-Service

• Enterprise’s servers host their data

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

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

Platform9 Managed Cloud


Key Benefits


vSphere With Platform9


Architecture

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Platform9 vSphere

Metadata Updates

Orchestration Commands

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vCenter

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Self-service Policy, Administration Persistence, Updates, Monitoring, HA

Stateless, lightweight

VM Operations


vSphere Enhancements

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• Integration

• Integration with existing vSphere deployment

• Interoperability with vSphere

• Changes by other entities are automatically discovered and reconciled

• Native support for vSphere templates

• Compatibility

• Networking simplified: supports vDS, VCNS and NSX

• Topology

• >1 cluster per vCenter


• Discovers vSphere environment • Clusters, datastores, portgroups

• Template images, VM Instances

• Periodic refresh

• Benefits • Seamless on-ramp for existing

environments

• 100% interoperable with VMware vSphere

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Integrating with vSphere


What About vRA?


vRA Architecture


vRA Facts• Rebrand of Dynamic Ops Purchase

• Designed primarily for admin use not for self-service

• Part of a collection of VMware management software

• Primarily focused on VMware technology

• Complex requiring a great deal of customization and professional services


Comparisons


Comparisons


Customer Use Case

• Customer profile:

• IT Admin @ mid-sized Enterprise

• Developers wanted self service - and quick!

• Had vRA licenses, didn’t deploy

• put off by deployment complexity

• workflow for his end users was complex


Customer Use Case - Continued..

• Reasons for choosing Platform9:

• Ease of deploying OpenStack!

• Future interest in running Linux/KVM and Docker

• Instant self-service to end users - with very low overhead on IT

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• There are real benefits to running a private cloud

• Developer productivity

• More efficient utilization of resources

• Pathway to innovation

• But private clouds are difficult to deploy and to manage

• Platform9 is the best solution to simplify private cloud management

• The benefits of Cloud without the management burdens

• Best of both worlds - New cloud services with exiting infrastructure

Summary


Thank You

VMware Private Clouds: Charting a path to success

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